Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, Ill., 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-194).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-194).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-194).

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The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the use of the verbal hedge "you know" in the spontaneous speech of women and drag queens to compare for instances of certainty and uncertainty as described by Holmes (1986). For the data, episodes of the reality shows RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked which airs on Logo TV and The Real Housewives of Orange County which airs on Bravo TV were manually transcribed by the conventions of written speech. The use of "you know" was then analyzed by function and context. In the results of this study, the women used "you know" to express uncertainty more often than the drag queens, except not in the way Lakoff (2004) described as being an aspect of "women’s language." The drag queens used "you know" more often to express certainty. However, when used to express uncertainty its use by the drag queens was more relevant to "women’s language" as described by Lakoff (2004) or an exaggerated performance of femininity.

As vespas da tribo Epiponini apresentam colônias com várias rainhas, cujo número varia durante o ciclo colonial. Nas colônias há inicialmente um número maior de rainhas, mas conforme o ciclo se desenvolve seu número diminui. Tem sido argumentado que nas colônias com indivíduos totipotentes pode haver conflitos de interesse entre rainhas e operárias. Neste contexto as operárias que são maioria poderiam ter uma vantagem para regular a produção de rainhas. Nos Epiponini o controle reprodutivo é feito possivelmente por sinalização química, que junto com posturas ritualizadas comunicam a presença da rainha na colônia. Como o processo de produção de rainhas é pouco conhecido, o objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar o comportamento de rainhas e operárias durante a fase de produção e seleção de modo a interpretar filogeneticamente as mudanças comportamentais entre as espécies. O estudo foi conduzido utilizando-se nove espécies de cinco gêneros: Chartergellus, Metapolybia, Protopolybia, Polybia, Brachygastra. Em cada colônia foram marcadas todas as rainhas, algumas operárias, e fêmeas recém-emergidas para realizar observações focais e filmagens dos comportamentos. Para promover a produção de rainhas foram feitos testes de remoção. Alguns dos comportamentos característicos das rainhas, e aqueles associados ao processo de seleção, tiveram sua origem interpretada filogeneticamente. O comportamento que melhor identifica as rainhas é o bending display I (BD1), um display de dominância feito das rainhas para as operárias, que foi basal para os Epiponini. O BD1 feito das operárias para as rainhas é uma apomorfía das operárias de Metapolybia. Outros comportamentos de teste entre rainhas surgiram independentemente em algumas espécies e poderiam estar relacionados com um aumento na complexidade das interações. Os testes das operárias estariam presentes no ancestral dos Epopinini indicando que elas controlam a seleção das rainhas. O comportamento de worker dance é utilizado principalmente pelas operarias dos clados de Polybia e Metapolybia para testar a capacidade reprodutiva das rainhas. Parece que os comportamentos ritualizados de dominância e de teste são utilizados como sinais honestos do potencial reprodutivo das fêmeas em vez de comportamentos agressivos. Em Metapolybia e Protopolybia exigua o BD1 é realizado com maior frequência após a eliminação da rainha e durante a seleção, diferente de Chartergellus e Protopolybia picteti onde não houve mudança. Em Chartergellus não houve um aumento dos displays, porque as fêmeas no geral não interagiam e a seleção é feita mediante a expulsão das rainhas. Em P. picteti nem todas as rainhas foram eliminadas. Em Metapolybia e Chartergellus no início do ciclo colonial há tolerância reprodutiva, e a eliminação das rainhas estimulou muitas fêmeas a ovipositar, mas o número eventualmente diminui. Este resultado mostra que a delimitação de casta poderia ser feita mediante algum tipo de sinalização química. Em Protopolybia há pouca redução do número de rainhas ao longo do ciclo e as intermediárias constantemente tentam botar ovos. Para as intermediárias é conveniente manter os ovários ativos para tentar atingir o status de rainha em uma nova colônia. A totipotência das fêmeas para desenvolver seus ovários é basal para os Epiponini. As operárias e intermediárias jovens, de idade intermediária e velhas podem desenvolver seus ovários diante da ausência da rainha. A flexibilidade é um traço muito importante nos Epiponini, uma vez que permite à população responder a situações adversas, mobilizando indivíduos a realizar diferentes tarefas segundo as necessidades da população. / Epiponini wasps have colonies with multiple queens, which alternate their number under different stages of the colony cycle. Initially there are several potential queens, but as the colony cycle develops, queen number is reduced. Because most of individuals remain reproductively totipotent there is great potential for conflicts over reproduction. Under this conditions workers could have an advantage to control queen production because they are the dominant caste. Reproductive control could be performed by chemical signals, which along with ritualized behaviors communicate queen presence in the colony. However, queen selection process is a little known across Epiponini, and for this reason our goal was to study queens and workers behavior during queen selection phase, performing a phylogenetic analysis to understand behavioral changes among species. We performed observations in nine species belong to five genera: Chartergellus, Metapolybia, Protopolybia, Polybia, Brachygastra. We marked queens, a sample of workers and newly emerged females to perform direct and video focal observations. To induce queen production, we performed queen removal tests. Some of queens characteristic behaviors and those associated with queen selection process were analyzed via phylogenetic optimization. Bending display I (BD1) is a dominance display performed queens against workers, is the behavior that better identify queens and is also basal for all Epiponini clades. BD1 perform from workers to queens is an apomorphy of Metapolybia. Another test behaviors performed among queens appeared independently in some species, and could be related with an increase of interaction complexity. Worker tests were present in the Epiponini ancestor, indicating that workers are in charge of queen control. Worker dance behavior was synapomorphic for the clade composed by Polybia, Metapolybia and their close related genera, in which workers test queens reproductive potential. Apparently, ritualized tests and dominance behaviors are used in Epiponini as honest signals of queens reproductive potential instead of aggressive behaviors. In Metapolybia and in Protopolybia exigua, BD1 is performed with high frequency after queen elimination and during queen selection process. On the other hand, in Chartergellus and Protopolybia picteti displays frequency did not change. In Chartergellus BD1 frequency did not change because females do not interact to each other a lot, also queen selection is performed by queens expulsion instead by tests. In P. picteti we possibly failed to remove all queens from the colony. Metapolybia and Chartergellus have reproductive tolerance between females during first stages of colony cycle, and queen elimination induced females to lay eggs, but queen number eventually is reduced. These results suggest that reproductive control in fact could be performed by chemical signals. On the other hand, in Protopolybia queens number change little during the colony cycle. In adition, intermediates constantly attempt to lay eggs. Persistence oviposition could be convenient for intermediates in Protopolybia to achieve queen status in new colonies. Females totipotency to develop ovaries is also basal for Epiponini. Not only young females develop their ovaries under queen lost; old and middle age individuals also attempt to replace the queen. Caste flexibility is decisive for colony survival of swarm wasps because allows colonies to respond efficiently to different situations that may eventually arise.

As sociedades de vespas da tribo Epiponini caracterizam-se pela variação no número de rainhas durante o ciclo colonial, o que implica na ocorrência cíclica de muitas rainhas (poliginia), poucas (oligoginia) e até uma rainha (monoginia). Durante as primeiras fases do ciclo colonial existe um número maior de rainhas, mas conforme a colônia cresce, o número de rainhas diminui. Os Epiponini também são caracterizados pela complexidade morfológica e as síndromes de diferenciação de castas. Entretanto, para algumas espécies dentro dos Polistinae, a única forma de separar as fêmeas reprodutoras das não reprodutoras é pelo comportamento ou pelo grau de desenvolvimento dos ovários. O estudo do comportamento e as interações sociais junto com os estudos morfométricos podem ajudar no entendimento da evolução da complexidade encontrada dentro dos Epiponini. Por isso o objetivo deste trabalho é descrever o comportamento das rainhas e operárias em Metapolybia docilis, e suas interações. Foram realizadas observações individuais do comportamento das rainhas e operárias previamente marcadas de quatro colônias de M. docilis. Foi feito um catálogo dos atos comportamentais observados com maior frequência. Para as rainhas os comportamentos incluíam tanto displays como comportamentos relacionados às necessidades básicas como alimentação e higiene, nas operárias os comportamentos incluíam principalmente trabalhos de manutenção do ninho e policiamento. Para realizar as análises morfométricas todos os indivíduos das colônias C1, C2 e C3 foram coletados, foi determinada a idade dos indivíduos da colônia e oito medidas corporais externas foram tomadas de uma amostra de 50 operárias e de todas as rainhas das colônias. A colônia C1 estava em Fase Matura, a colônia C2 em Fase de Pré- Enxameagem, as colônias C3 e C4 em Fase de Estabelecimento. Os comportamentos realizados com maior frequência pelas rainhas das quatro colônias foram: curvar o abdômen (CA), dança de display (DD), inspeção de célula (IC), trofalaxia (Tx) e auto-limpeza (Limp). Os comportamentos realizados com maior frequência pelas operárias foram IC e Tx. O comportamento CA provavelmente é um comportamento display de dominância feito pelas rainhas e o comportamento DD provavelmente está ligado a interações competitivas ou de dominância entre as fêmeas das colônias. Não foi encontrada diferenciação morfológica significativa entre rainhas e operárias de M. docilis para as colônias C2 e C3, mas sim para a colônia C1. Dentro das colônias estudadas o controle na reprodução das fêmeas é feito mediante o comportamento e não por manipulação larval. As operárias e as rainhas testam a capacidade reprodutiva das outras rainhas mediante displays de dominância não agressivos para decidir que fêmeas continuaram encarregando-se de produzir novos indivíduos. As operárias possivelmente controlam a reprodução (mediante o policiamento de ovos), seleção das rainhas, e todos os outros aspectos dentro da colônia explorando o ambiente e as necessidades do ninho. / Epiponini wasps societies are characterized by the alternation in the number of queens from many (polygyny) to few queens (olygyny) or even one (monogyny) during the colony cycle. When the colony is in the growing phase there are many queens, but as colony grows queen number decreases and new queens will be produced only when queen number is close to one (monygyny). Epiponines wasps are also characterized by the complexity of the morphological caste syndromes. However, in some Epiponini species the only way to separate reproductives from not reproductives is by behavioral acts or by the degree of ovarian development. The study of behavior and social interactions, associated with morphometric studies, could help to better understand the evolution and complexity found within the Epiponini. We studied and described behavioral acts and interactions between queens and workers in Metapolybia docilis. We performed direct and indirect (video) observations of individual behavior of previously marked queens and workers from four M. docilis colonies. We catalogued the most frequently observed behavioral acts: for queens these behaviors included displays and basic need behaviors such as feeding and hygiene; for workers they included nest maintenance and policing behaviors. All the individuals from colonies C1, C2 and C3 were collected to perform a morphometric analysis and age determination by taking eight external body measurements from a 50 workers sample and from all the queens of the colonies. Colony C1 was in an Emergence phase, colony C2 in a pre-swarming phase, colonies C3 and C4 in a pre-emergence phase. Most frequently behaviors made by queens were bending abdomen (BA), dance display (DD), cell inspection (CI), trofalaxis (Tx) and grooming (G). Most frequently behaviors made by workers were IC and Tx. Bending abdomen (BA) is probably a dominance display made by queens, and dance display (DD) was probably a test behavior made by workers and queens to test another queens. For colonies C2 and C3 there is no morphological differences between queens and workers, but there is a slight difference for colony C1. Within the colonies, the reproduction control is performed by behavior and not by larval manipulation because we did not found morphological differences between castes. Workers and queens tested the reproductive capacity of the queens by non aggressive dominance displays in order to select which females perform the reproduction work in the colony. Workers probably control the reproduction (by worker policing on the eggs laid), queen selection and all the others tasks on the colony by scanning the environment and the needs of the colony.

abstract: This dissertation project examines the cultural labor of the drag queen in the United States (US). I explore how the drag queen can be understood as a heuristic to understand the stakes and limits of belonging and exceptionalism. Inclusion in our social and national belonging in the US allows for legibility and safety, however, when exceptional or token figures become the path towards achieving belonging, it can leave out those who are unable to conform, which are often the most vulnerable folks. I argue that attending to the drag queen’s trajectory, we can trace the ways that multiply-marginalized bodies navigate attempts to include, subsume, and erase their existence by the nation-state while simultaneously celebrating and consuming them in the realm of media and consumer culture. In the first chapter I introduce the project, the context and the stakes involved. Chapter two examines representations of drag queens in films to unpack how these representations have layered over time for American audiences, and positions these films as necessary building blocks for queer semiosis for viewers to return to and engage with. Chapter three analyzes RuPaul and RuPaul’s Drag Race to outline RuPaul labor as an exceptional subject, focusing on his investment in homonormative politics and labor supporting homonationalist projects. Chapter four centers questions of trans* identity and race, specifically Blackness to analyze how Drag Race renders certain bodies and performances legitimate and legible, constructing proper drag citizens. Chapter five utilizes ethnographic methods to center local drag communities, focusing on The Rock and drag performers in Phoenix, Arizona to analyze how performers navigate shifting media discourses of drag and construct a queer performance space all their own. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Gender Studies 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate how femininity is portrayed in relation to power in the Swedish documentary series Drottningarna, which follows the life experience of 8 Swedish queens. This will be researched based on the theories of hegemonic masculinity and femininity. The study also aims to investigate what purposes might have contributed to how the different queens are portrayed in the series, and how truthful the representation of them is. The results shows that power in the series is often associated with breaking and opposing the power structures, but also with typically hegemonic masculine traits such as assertiveness, independence and aggressivity. the series also seems to primarily have a commercial purpose, even though it contains both cognitive, moral, and aesthetic intentions. This in turn affects the credibility of the series in a negative way, as the focus is on making good television instead of sticking to historical truths.